Baja California Sur, Mexico
2950 sqft
2019
Photos / Ema Peter
Costa Azul, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
2800 sqft
2021
Photos/ Romana Lilic
Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada
3,020 sqft
2021
Photos / Ema Peter
Gastown, Vancouver, Canada
3,100 sqft
2019
Photos/ Andrew Latreille
La Ventana, Baja California Sur, Mexico
2020
Photos/ Ema Peter
Paola Masera + Campos Studio
ISETTA CAFÉ AND BISTRO
West Vancouver, British Columbia
2,100 sqft
2022
Photos/ Ema Peter
Campos Studio
Design Architecture Everyday Inc.: DAE
Thomas Quirino Eleizegui
Los Zacatitos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
4380 sqft
2020
Photos/ Ema Peter
Campos Studio
Project team/ Javier Campos + Jan Strelzig
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky” – Victor Hugo
Along Mexico’s Baja California coast where the desert, ocean, and sky meet, Campos Studio has completed its latest project in a series of off-the-grid modernist dwellings located in the community of Los Zacatitos. Inspired by the minimalist economy of the hot arid climate, Campos Studio’s buildings explore desert living through simple forms given shape by passive strategies. The work aims to integrate these strategies to the point of being essential, invisible, and indistinguishable from the architecture.
At Zacatitos 5, living occurs on a platform perched on the rocks that dot the beach. Designed to follow the horizon, the platform is a place to experience the smell and sounds of a restless ocean and the expansive sky. Facing east, the platform is oriented towards the sunrise. As the sun rises and becomes relentless one can retreat to an area of the platform that is shaded by the mass of the bedrooms above. This area creates a transition zone between the exposed deck and the interior spaces which bury themselves into the slope, where the earth acts as a heat sink that helps minimize the daily temperature fluctuations.
The sloping site commences with cacti and desert shrub and ends on the rocks and sand that give way to the ocean. The project connects them with a circulation spine that cuts the building in two. The slot allows one to leave behind the desert and arrive at the ocean. As one descends the stairs to the main living area the sky and ocean are separated into vertical and horizontal frames before they are reunited into one complementary expansive element.
Enroute Café
Vancouver, British Columbia
1787 sqft
2020
Photos / Ema Peter
Enroute is located along West 1st Avenue, a designated bike route in Vancouver British Columbia that travels east-west along the ocean, connecting the city's core with residential neighbourhoods. We were approached by three friends to design a space along this commonly traveled route. Being distinguished cyclists themselves, they saw this as an opportunity to extend their passion into the community.
The clients wanted a place they could sell top of the line cycling gear without becoming an intimidating and unwelcoming retail environment. This led to a program that was multi-use, a place to stop for your morning coffee, get your bike tuned up, and purchase new gear. The cafe then becomes a community hub for passing cyclists, riding clubs and residents of the neighbourhood rather than merely a high end retail destination. From the location of the cafe, the route extends east towards downtown Vancouver and west towards the ocean, where one feels like they have left the city entirely, surrounded by the lush forest and the pacific ocean’s endless horizon. This extreme contrast between city and nature allows the cafe to become a popular stop for all types of cycling whether it be leisure, daily commute or road racing.
Further design decisions progressed naturally from this idea of a residential community hub. We opened the facade, adding custom bike racks and patio seating that spill out to the street. The interior palette became whimsical with subtle nuances throughout referencing bicycle geometry, balanced with a light, minimal palette to keep the design refined and modern.
Vancouver, Canada
New Construction
3400 ft2
The project draws from the Craftsman housing stock that formed original settling of Vancouver. From this, ideas of the porch, cover and textural facade became part of the design. From the West Coast Modern tradition, careful attention was paid to the transitions between interior space and garden. The resulting dwelling tied together these typologies found in the surrounding neighbourhood. Transparency, texture and light drove the interior and exterior of the house.
The quality of light in Vancouver changes drastically with the seasons. A blackened gable roof wraps the dwelling, defining its form amongst the winter’s dull grey skies, with skylights bringing light into the central part of the house. As the seasons change and the trees begin to blossom, the form remains defined but the textured cedar facade begins to blend into the natural environment. This colour palette allows the contemporary dwelling to maintain a sophisticated, yet humble appearance year round.
Architect: Campos StudioInterior Design: Bla Design Group Photography: Andrew Latreille
Sooke, British Columbia.
2410 sqft
Under Construction
Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
1450sq ft
2018
Photos/Ema Peter
The Sooke house, made for a woman and her dog sits on a rocky knoll where the forest meets the sea. A small clearing nested among the trees upon the knoll provides slices of ocean and mountains through the trunks of the large Pacific Northwest rainforest. These fractured and partial perceptions of the forest and its surroundings gave us inspiration to design a house that framed discreet experiences; as a way to make present the maxim that you cannot see the forest through the trees.
After camping on the site, the design team drew inspiration from being in the forest and eschewed the traditional impetus to place a house on the edge of the forest looking out into the ocean. The rocky knoll, at the high point of the site, emerged as the natural place that organized the site. It was the place where everyone congregated to observe and socialize. Recognized as such, the decision was taken to leave this area intact and envelop it with the house.
The forest, a series of Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce and Cedars trunks supporting their foliage high up in the air became our inspiration for the tectonic of the house. The house structure organized around one proportioned concrete column rising out of the floor mimics the trees trunks in size and scale. This column, along with the wood stove pipe, recreate and integrate the house with the rhythm of the forest.
When one looks up from the forest floor one becomes aware of the protection provided by the large branches that spread from the trunks of the trees with the light filtering through the dense filigree of the needles. The meandering ridge beam that branches along the main space supports a thin slat wood ceiling meant to evoke the canopy of these surrounding conifers.
The experience of the forest from the house was replicated in the house by organizing each space around a different abstracted view of the landscape. A series of forest vistas through each room present different aspects of the forest, to views of the trunks, tree canopy, shoreline, ocean and mountains. This not only serves to recreate the all encompassing forest experience but also to create a unique environment for each space in the house. A technique that creates rich variety for a small house in the woods.
Featured In:
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/campos-studio-unveils-sooke-house/
https://www.dwell.com/home/sooke-01-house-13cf43e7
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/10/05/angular-black-house-campos-studio-canadian-rainforest/
https://www.dwell.com/article/sooke-house-01-campos-studio-003f0e27
https://ambientesdigital.com/sooke-01-house-campos-studio/
https://www.digsdigs.com/contemporary-geometric-house/
Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
48 sq ft
2017
Photo Cred/Andrew Latreille
Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3750 ft2
2017
Photos/ Ema Peter
The Brick House
"Instead of telling the child what to do (swing here, climb there) [the structures] become places for endless exploration"
Art Critic Thomas Hess on Isamu Noguchi’s playgrounds
The Brick house was a collaboration with a family with four young children. Through discussions with the couple, it became clear that they wanted a clean modern brick house while at the same time it was important that the house encouraged play. The resolution came from an exploration of play and playgrounds formulated by Isamu Noguchi and the idea on non-committal structures that we have developed in our work.
The formal essence of the brick house is an abstraction of a solid brick with cavities cut out of it, meaning that there are no perforations, only voids. Within the rather modern building this strategy produced is a playground. It is not a playground of slides and ladders but rather a hidden playground, a playground disguised in the very structure of the house. It is this playground that is so essential to the design of the house that it could be missed altogether without the imagination of a child.
The interior of the house is organized around a vertical toy chest, a three-story millwork wall of solids and voids on which one can store, sit, work, make coffee. On the stair side of the toy chest are a number of book niches that create a vertical library over the 3 levels.
Openings in the toy chest, along with exposed structure, level changes, and built in seating provide areas that with imagination can be transformed into opportunities for fun activities. The spaces, along with the material choices, were designed to allow the children to transform formal living spaces into game areas. Blurring the distinction between formal and play areas throughout the house encourages us rethink the way we segregate functions and encourage creative thinking about space. This idea is reinforced through the design of the millwork and surfaces around the house, to encourage interaction by allowing the children to manipulate their environment.
Rather than private decks off the bedrooms, the brick house employs a central garden deck carved out of the middle of the house for shared living. A transitional space that organizes the bedrooms while in encourages contemplative activities as well as communal play.
Los Zacatitos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
3800 ft²
2011
Photos/ John Sinal
Off grid desert dwelling
This project is the third of a series of desert dwelling prototypes that comprise an ongoing body of research into off-grid living in a relatively extreme climate. All three research sites are located in the remote community of Los Zacatitos, in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Zacatitos 03 was designed as a formal expression of the local construction methodology - concrete-reinforced insulation panel system. The program elements are organized in a linear fashion across the sloping site in response to the orientation sun, direction of local prevailing breezes. The double line of panels was then shifted and laterally accommodate views, maximize ventilation, and protect against solar gain.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio
Featured In:
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/campos-leckie-studio-zacatitos-003-desert-home/
https://archello.com/project/zacatitos-03
https://www.archdaily.com/522166/zacatitos-03-campos-leckie-studio
https://www.e-architect.co.uk/mexico/zacatitos-03-house-in-baja-california-sur
https://www.archilovers.com/projects/91132/zacatitos-03.html
https://www.amazingarchitecture.com/post/zacatitos-03-designed-by-campos-studio
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
640 ft²
2016
Photos / Ema Peter
Contractor / Boydco
Point Grey Laneway, also known as Miko Laneway, is a re-imagination of the traditional colonial style laneways proposed by the City of Vancouver’s Laneway program into form based and respectful of the Japanese Canadians that have lived in Vancouver for generations. The project was executed as a collaboration between Vancouver design firm Campos Studio and Blue Design.
The intent of Vancouver’s Laneway Program is to provide affordable rental housing through soft density. Its context are the garages, carports and services which the original planners intended to keep away from green streets of the City’s leafy residential neighbourhoods.
The guidelines that govern laneways have focused on the production of a form that replicates the city’s predominant craftsman revival form while missing the more important goal of developing new urban forms that reflect the actual inhabitants and engage what were previously secondary service spaces.
Laneways are allowed a maximum of 940 square feet though due to Vancouver’s lot sizes the majority are 640 square feet. With this restriction, the most important goal becomes how to make this minimal space a truly liveable environment.
Although most Laneways are rented out for additional income there is growing number of laneways whose goal is multi-generational living for families. A strategy which allows for aging in place as well as skirting the City stratospheric land costs.
The Miko laneway is a project that is bringing together three generations of a Japanese Canadian family and allows them to support each other as they age in place. The laneway brings the daughter back to where she grew up, while her mother remains in the main house where she can accommodate her visiting grandchildren.
The project embraced the family’s Japanese heritage and the ideas of contrasting elements making a whole, that imperfection and variation create rather than detracts from beauty and the nature of materials, pursues a dialogue with its context and eschews symmetrical compositions in favour of asymmetry and balance.
The building form was intentionally asymmetric and clad in hand stained split face shakes and metal. The shakes were chosen for the individuality that their heavy texturing provides. While the hand staining was selected to ensure variation and imperfection. The dark colour is an assertive contrast to the cloud grey and pale blue skies as well as providing a backdrop to the striking blossoms of the mature plum tree in their garden. It also stands in contrast to the warm white interior which is foreshadowed in the soffits and cut outs which are lined with custom sized cedar boards hand tinted with a translucent white stain.
The interior is defined by the contrast between the dark tinted concrete floors and the white interiors. The white interiors are structured by wood elements clad in the white stained siding material that assert their imperfection and stand in contrast to the industrial smooth surfaces which bound the interior volume.
The Miko Laneway embraces the Japanese traditions of the family it serves though the creation of a sensitive modern response that facilitates multi-generational living and contributes to the transition of Vancouver’s laneways from secondary service spaces to liveable streets.
Featured In:
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/01/03/faceted-roof-folds-over-shingle-clad-laneway-house-fort-grey-vancouver-campos-studio/
https://www.admagazine.ru
https://www.dwell.com/article/miko-laneway-campos-studio-8ad14e33
Costa Azul, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
2600 ft²
2014
Photos/ Ema Peter
Costa Azul House continues our refinement of passive design strategies that have given shape to our off-the-grid projects in the desert of Baja California. As an urban residential project, the design of Costa Azul House eschewed the openness to the desert found in our rural projects and instead adopted a courtyard form to create an experience that is focused inwards.
Designed as a free flowing open plan, the main floor is bounded by the living room to the west, covered outdoor siting area to the south, an open exterior seating area to the east. At the centre is a swimming pools that serves as the foreground to all three spaces. The space was walled off to the east and north so as to create a small private and intimate courtyard that organizes the lower floor inwards and obscures the residential neighbourhood.
While the use of a courtyard was a direct response to its urban context, the form of the Costa Azul house was derived from the need to provide a passive strategy with effective solar shading and natural ventilation. To achieve these goals the living spaces were located on top of the west and south volumes to act as shading devices for the courtyard. A staircase and circulation was placed all along the west façade to act as a solar shield and ventilation space to the living areas. To the south the bedrooms were protected from exposure by a buffer of service spaces. These buffers along the south and west sides of the building allowed us to create deep opening that were in turn shaped to minimize solar gain.
These passive strategies gave the Costa Azul House an expressive form that we highlighted through a modest and minimal material palette, a combination that parallels the flamboyant moments hidden in the austere economy of the desert. The main finish of the Costa Azul House is a trowelled plaster whose slight rough finish helps to make the intensity of the light visible. A finish that stands in contrast to the smooth concrete floors employed throughout. Aside from the textured wood doors, the only accent on the main floor is a monolithic wall of Mexican tiles that is visible from all of the spaces surrounding the pool. On the upper floor, this gesture is repeated, this time with the interior of the showers, which are open to sky, being clad in Mexican tiles. For us the restrain of these gestures mimics the austerity of the desert environment.
As with our other projects, the Costa Azul House started as a direct response to the site, which was in turn mediated by the demands of an affective passive strategy. It is through the framework of these contextual responses that we aim to create unique and sensitive modern works.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio.
Featured In:
https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/costa-azul-mexico-campos-leckie-studio/
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2414 ft²
2016
Photos/ Conrad Brown, Gillian Stevens & Andrew Latreille
Contractor / Terris Lightfoot
Yew Street House is a traditional Vancouver house that was renovated to suit aging in place. The project was executed as a collaboration between Vancouver design firm Campos Studio and Toronto based industrial designer Tom Chung.
Yew House is situated on a small corner lot in Kitsilano, one Vancouver’s original working class neighbourhoods. Originally built in 1907, the house underwent a patchwork of renovations and in the 1970’s most of its land was sold off to accommodate a neighbouring development. Due to the sale of this land it is now impossible to build a new house on the lot. Therefore, the plan became to upgrade the existing house by gutting it down to the studs, reinsulating and seismically upgrading the shell.
Having raised their family in this walkable neighbourhood the owners wanted to find a way to renovate the house to suit their transition to being semi-retired empty nesters and through retirement to aging in place. The plan became to create a bright modern open loft style living area with an unobtrusive and private guest area for visiting children and friends. The previous attic den was converted into a master bedroom and ensuite loft with hidden storage while the ground floor bedrooms are now a self-sufficient guest area connected to the main living space through a concealed door in the kitchen millwork. The main floor was designed to be convertible to one level living by anticipating the eventual conversion of the TV room and powder room into a master bedroom so that the couple could age in place.
Finishes were kept hardwearing and timeless throughout. The floors, including the stairs, are European white oak. The millwork is a combination of Oak and Baltic Birch. The ceiling was braced with black metal turnbuckles which echoed the black metal screens and metalwork.
During the demolition, an original fire place was discovered hidden behind drywall. It was restored and helps to define the dining and living areas. The project includes a number of custom lights by Tom Chung while the furniture is a mixture of client owned vintage pieces and contemporary design pieces.
Featured In:
https://www.archdaily.com/915796/yew-house-campos-studio-plus-tom-chung-studio
https://www.archilovers.com/projects/253750/yew-house.html#images
Los Zacatitos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
3500 ft²
2003
Photos/ John Sinal
This project is the first of a series of desert dwelling prototypes that comprise an ongoing body of research into off-grid living in a relatively extreme climate. All three research sites are located in the remote community of Los Zacatitos, in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
The project's four detached buildings and their related exterior spaces are carefully arranged around the contours of a natural bowl on the four-acre site so as to catch prevailing breezes, allow seasonal arroyos to flow freely, and in response to existing granite outcrops and desert flora. Two smaller villas with sleeping accommodation flank the principal living space with a garage / utility structure placed behind these buildings forming an entry court. Each villa is organized around a cooling courtyard planted with indigenous flora and irrigated with grey water. The passive heating/cooling strategies are founded on traditional spanish architecture’s use of outdoor courts and abstracted to create a modern green building form. The orientation of the villas and the interrelationship of exterior circulation, interior and exterior living spaces, and interior breezeways affords the use the prevailing breezes employing the Venturi effect to generate a comfortable living environment year round, while also mediating architectural considerations of privacy and place.
The minimal formal expression of the project was developed through a subtractive methodology applied to a series of platonic volumes carefully oriented on the site. In a manner that is analogous to the desert context, the understated formal complexity of the project was developed as a direct response to extreme environmental conditions.
Featured In:
http://twentyandchange.org/archive/2009
https://www.archilovers.com/projects/73450/zacatitos-01.html
North Vancouver, BC
2150 ft²
2018
Photos/ Ema Peter & Andrew Latreille
Contractor / Humphries Construction
Two Rivers Meats is a butcher, charcuterie, and restaurant concept developed to feature their organic local meats. The project was executed as a collaboration between Vancouver design firms Campos Studio and Domain Creative.
Located in North Vancouver which developed as a working waterfront that left an industrial area along most of its shore. Behind that a series of large malls and car oriented streets sprung up after the war to serve growing residential neighbourhoods.
In 2007 when it began providing high quality local organic beef to Vancouver restaurants Two Rivers Meats set up its production facility in a generic warehouse building from the 1950’s situated between the back of the malls and the waterfront industrial area. After becoming a successful restaurant supplier, they decided to start Two Rivers Meats – The Store
Carved out of their ten thousand square foot production facility a space was created to provide high quality ethically raised beef and charcuterie. The concept evolved to include a licensed eat-in kitchen where their meats could be grilled over a wood fire.
The concept for the store draws from the immersive experience of traditional Municipal Markets, places to both buy and consume food, where the business have both butchers and cooks working side by side and their cured meats are displayed prominently.
The design placed the customer at the centre of the space, on three long custom tables on top of a large logo in the terrazzo floor and surrounded by the butchery, charcuterie, and kitchen. This unpretentious dining area is lit with the same LED strip lighting that light the whole space and was designed to be seen as part of the working areas.
Along with the traditional meat cases the butcher area has visible cutting and dry age areas glassed in behind the retail. The dry age cooler can be seen from the whole shop and customers come right up to it on their way to the washrooms.
The charcuterie area is defined by a custom refrigerated cabinet that runs its length and is reminiscent of the hanging dried meats found in markets. It is also where drinks are served and all the orders for the kitchen are taken as the concept purposefully did not provide table service.
Opposite the butchery is the kitchen, clad in stainless steel and with its open wood grill, from where aroma of grilled meats makes for tempting spectacle that can be seen from the dining tables.
The working areas were all clad in traditional butcher tiles. Though ubiquitous the layout was such that no tiles were cut, providing a subtle intentionality to the execution of the design. In addition, the tiles were set at angles on thickset so that reflections and sunlight sparkled in abstract ways.
The exterior of the building has a pergola that runs the length of the building. Its language was abstracted to provide for a glass cover. The structure of the patio was used to rest a simple industrial sign at the scale of the mall signage nearby.
The butcher, charcuterie and restaurant have become a destination for the customers of Two Rivers Meats who appreciate the honesty and simplicity of the design and its industrial surroundings of a bottle return depot and industrial product suppliers.
Featured In:
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/keyword/two-rivers-meats/
https://www10.aeccafe.com/blogs/arch-showcase/2019/07/18/two-rivers-meats-in-vancouver-canada-by-campos-studio/
South Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
3000 ft²
2012
Photos/ Rafael Santa Ana & Megan Paris-Griffiths
This project is conceived as a domestic landscape that blurs the boundary between interior and exterior space in a temperate coastal rainforest climate. It is essentially a ranch house typology with a guest house stacked upon it - designed for a physically active empty nest couple who enjoy the idea of welcoming family home for the holidays. The domestic program is spread across the entire site, across a series of stepped platforms, and the vertical circulation connecting the main floor to the upstairs is deliberately understated.
The programmatic organization allows the primary residents to live entirely on the ground floor in a series of specs that have intimate connections to the landscape. The primary living spaces are organized around a japanese-inspired courtyard, or ‘moss garden’, that operates as a multi-faceted architectural device. On the one side it provides circulation along the primary axis which connects the main entry through to the backyard pool and workout pavilion. Secondly, it creates a visual extension of the living room into the garden. Lastly, the kitchen opens directly into the courtyard, providing a sense that it is a glass pavilion in the garden. The central living space is bracketed on the south side by a large concrete fireplace which provides privacy from the street. The orientation, form, and positioning of the upper volume was designed to protect against direct solar gain during the summer months, while allowing light at lower sun angles to penetrate into the spaces during the winter months.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio
Featured In:
https://issuu.com/homes-living-magazine/docs/vancouver_junejuly2014_teaser
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
1200 ft²
2010
Photos/ John Sinal
Consistent with the exhibition theme of High Performance: Evolution and innovation in Canadian Design, inter/section demonstrates the potential of contemporary wood fabrication technologies to generate formal variation from standardized wood construction materials within the constraints of material efficiency, ease of assembly/disassembly, and adaptive reuse.
The form of inter/section structures the relationship between the viewer, the exhibition objects, and associated graphic information while specific sections respond to the particular placement and spatial dimensions of each of the objects.
All components in the assembly are joined through interlocking friction connections without the use of fasteners or adhesives. The installation is created using 172 sheets of plywood that were cut using a 3-axis CNC (computer numerically controlled) router. The 288 vertical planes are paired and cut from 144 sheet of plywood. The remaining 28 sheets are used for interlocking horizontal pieces that shape this particular installation.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio
Featured In:
https://www.architonic.com/en/project/campos-leckie-studio-inter-section/5100314
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
1800 ft²
2013
Photos/ John Sinal
The impetus for this project was the conversion of a heritage-listed house into a work-live space. The design employs an industrial aesthetic, using simple connections and robust materials for the addition as a counterpoint to the Victorian articulated decoration found on the existing exterior. In a subtle gesture to the ornate exterior, the cladding uses variation in proportion and cadence to alleviate the otherwise monolithic quality of the panelling.
The interior was reconfigured so as to allow a sealed off area for client consultations, while two specific private areas, a library and a study, were provided upstairs for work. The project provided us with an opportunity to develop an integrated work/live environment that preserved the character of the existing Victorian house, while also expanding the connection between the house and rear garden.
Though a renovation to an existing heritage-listed house, we consciously introduced modern formal elements that could co-exist with the character of the house. A porch on the back of the house that had been converted into exterior space was removed and the space reconfigured to provide a private exterior space in this dense urban neighbourhood. In addition, the timber box connects the productive garden to the living spaces and acts as a light box that introduces light deep into the house.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2014
Photos/ Campos Studio
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
800 ft²
2010
Photos/ Rafael Santa Ana & Megan Paris-Griffiths
This project was conceived with two specific programmatic scenarios in mind – an immediate requirement for an 800sf working artist studio, secure storage, and covered parking space; as well as a future agenda to easily convert the structure into a one-bedroom laneway dwelling. It was designed prior to the City of Vancouver’s Laneway Housing Initiative, and represents an progressive approach to Vancouver’s zoning bylaws.
In the artist studio scenario the finished ‘garage’ is used as a storage space, with large swing doors opening onto the lane for moving large artwork in and out of the studio. In the laneway dwelling scenario the ‘garage’ is converted into a bedroom, and the powder room expands to accommodate an already roughed-in shower.
The main architectural feature is a retractable glass wall that opens to connect the studio / living space to the garden. The glass wall faces south, capturing as much light as possible year-round, while also incorporating a cantilevered overhang to minimize solar gain during the summer months. Vancouver’s temperate climate allows the glass wall to be open throughout most of the year - protected from rain by the cantilevered roof above.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
400 ft²
2014
Photos/ Campos Studio
Los Zacatitos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
1600 ft²
2011
Photos/ John Sinal
This project is the second of a series of desert dwelling prototypes that comprise an ongoing body of research into off-grid living in a relatively extreme climate. All three research sites are located in the remote community of Los Zacatitos, in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Zacatitos 02 is an architectural experiment that fully explores the concept of architecture as a device which mediates one’s occupation and experience of the landscape. It presents a minimal architectural aesthetic wherein interior and exterior blend seamlessly, lightly demarcated by large operable glazing panels. The detail-oriented minimalism evoke and inevitability that is a direct reflection of the frugality and sparseness that is the ethos of this landscape.
Using a convertible architecture this project strives to provide a sense of inhabitation of the landscape which affords the luxury of being neither completely inside, nor entirely outside, but somewhere in between. To achieve this, the primary living space features three walls with large operable glazing panels that fully retract, providing the effect of expanding the dwelling almost infinitely into the natural landscape beyond. The concrete topography of the dwelling dematerializes in fragments as it extends into the desert context. The restrained material palette consisting almost exclusively of glass, concrete, steel, and aluminum provides a minimal monochromatic landscape that is a direct reflection of the ethos of the desert.
This project was completed as Campos Studio Leckie
Featured In:
https://www.archilovers.com/projects/73452/zacatitos-02.html
Whistler, British Columbia Canada
2900 ft²
2014
Photos/ Joshua Dool
This project is situated in Whistler beautifully positioned on the lake front. A loft style open plan is applied and the program is deconstructed into two primary structures. The glazing carefully frames mountain views and the house is integrated into the landscape for a family retreat.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3700 ft²
2014
Photos/ Campos Studio, John Sinal
The project is located in a suburban area of Vancouver with single-family homes on larger lots and is next to seven square kilometers of park that borders The University of British Columbia. We were able to keep the area and footprint of the house to less than the allowable. This was not only a strategy to reduce the environmental footprint of the house but also a conscious decision to leave as much garden as possible. This project is for a family with four young children. In the planning we developed scenario planning strategies so that the building would accommodate the changing needs of the family. The project respects two mature trees, these trees provide context and heritage to the neighbourhood. Carefully analyzing the site allowed us to propose passive design strategies to increase energy efficiency, comfort and habitability.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio
Featured In:
http://westernliving.ca/doty/architectural-designer-of-the-year-2017-campos-studio/
Los Zacatitos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
2400 ft²
2014
Photos/ John Sinal
This project is an exploration of the modernist pavilion in an extreme desert context. The site is a west-facing rocky knoll with distant views of a volcanic mountain ridge to the west and the Sea of Cortez to the south. The organization of the architectural program is used to create a passive solar response to the constraints of a challenging site and modest construction budget.
The project utilizes a relatively small building footprint on the steeply sloping site - organizing the public living areas on a series of cascading platforms, shaded and sheltered by a single monolithic rectangular volume that houses the bedrooms above. The circulation corridor on the upper floor features a southwest-facing perforated exterior wall that absorbs the intense solar gain, isolating the inboard bedrooms from the heat while also creating a pressure differential that results in effective passive ventilation.
The upper volume is supported lightly on three points, with the majority of the main floor opening into the landscape through a series of operable glass panels. There is a large internal rectangular opening in the upper box, through which a cantilevered stair rises upward over the plunge pool. This deep opening blocks direct sunlight from penetrating into the exteriorized living space below, while providing an open connection to the sky above the exterior living area and pool.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio
Featured In:
https://www.archdaily.com/522192/zacatitos-04-campos-leckie-studio
http://leibal.com/interiors/residential/zacatitos-004/
https://www.simplicitylove.com/2014/07/zacatitos-04-mexico-campos-leckie-studio.html
https://www.campos.studio/press/-/wallpaper
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2013
Photos/ Campos Studio
San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
12 ac
2014
Photos/ Campos Studio
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Competition Entry, 2013
Photos/ Campos Studio
Seattle, Washington, United States
2000 ft²
2008
Photos/ Campos Studio
Renovation of an existing 3 storey condominium in Seattle’s Belltown. The project is organized around a staircase that dematerializes as it ascends upwards, allowing light to penetrate deep into the space.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Public Art, 2014
Photos/ Campos Studio
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2006
Photos/ Campos Studio
Olympic Oval Public Art
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
2010
Photos/ Rafael Santa Ana & Megan Paris-Griffiths
Sight Works is a collaboration between the Vancouver based Sculptor Elspeth Pratt and Campos Leckie Studio, and was the winning entry for the Public Art Competition Site Furnishings: Dike Works and Related Elements.
The competition entry was part of a larger dike revetment project commissioned in 2009 under the development of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Precinct at the Richmond Skating Oval. The project was sponsored by the City of Richmond to create an integrated art/design/landscape piece that would operate as an integral component of a larger art and landscape experience across the entire Richmond Olympic Oval site, attracting visitors and dike trail users to the water’s edge. Accordingly, one of the project requirements was to accommodate large groups of up to 200 people while also, as part of the legacy amenities program, making provisions for solitary river viewing.
Sight Works responds to the fact that, unlike the other two arms of the Fraser River, the Middle Arm was not industrialized due to it’s relatively shallow depth. Accordingly, the iconography of the project is an abstraction of the geological processes of the Middle Arm of the Fraser River: the deposition of alluvium, as well as the inexorable slow downstream flow of material and accumulation in the form of logs and debris along the water’s edge.
The project is comprised of four main elements: a long low alluvial concrete wall and three unique viewing platforms. The three hundred and eighty five foot alluvial wall is oriented along the edge of a pedestrian walking path, mimicking the deposition pattern of alluvium, and perspectivally distorting the measured distance as it diminishes gradually in both height and width over its entire length. The viewing platforms are oriented perpendicular to the walking path and have been constructed to reflect the accretion of material that accumulates along the river bank. Each of the three platforms - Bridge, River, and Shore - has been oriented to focus on the component parts of the Middle Arm of the Fraser River.
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
5000 ft²
2013
Photos/ John Sinal
This project is part of our ongoing work for the Canadian owned and operated Cactus Club Cafe Restaurant Group. Known for it’s innovative design, remarkable menu, and outstanding customer service. Cactus Club Restaurant Group boasts 27 locations across Canada. We have installed feature design pieces in many of the other locations, but the North Burnaby location is our work throughout.
This project was completed as Campos Leckie Studio
Skidigate Hlgaagilda, British Columbia, Canada
Under Construction
860 Homer St, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
2120 ft2
2015
Photos/ Ema Peter
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